174 LINURGUS OLIVACEUS. 



Linurgus olivaceus. 



Coceothraustes olivaceus, Fraser, P. Z. S. 1842, p. 144 Fernando Po. 

 Pyrrhospiza olivaceus, Sliarpe, Cat. B. M. xii. p. 434 (1888) Fernando 



Po, Camaroons. 

 Hyphantospiza olivacea, Reichen. J. f. 0. 1892, pp. 188, 222 ; 1894, 



p. 40 Buea; Sjost. Sveusk. Vet. Ak. Handl. 27, No. 1, p. 92 (1895). 

 Linurgus olivaceus, Shelley, B. Afr. I. No. 304 (1896). 



Adult male. Entire head and throat jet black, ending in a point on 

 the crop ; mantle uniform yellovfish olive, inclining to yellow on the back 

 of the neck, lower back and upper tail-coverts ; wing-coverts like the back 

 but with broad bright yellow terminal margins to the greater coverts, form- 

 ing a distinct bar on the wing ; quills blackish, with broad outer edges of 

 bright yellow on the secondaries, shading into olive on the basal half of 

 the feathers ; under surface of the wings with the quills dusky black 

 broadly margined on the inner webs with ashy white like the coverts, the 

 latter partially washed with yellow. Tail brownish olive, the feathers 

 fading into yellow towards the edges. Sides of neck, crop, breast and 

 under tail-coverts deep yellow with a slight olive shade on the flanks. Iris 

 brown, "bill and legs yellow" (Eraser). Total length 5-6 inches, culmen 

 0'55, wing 3, tail 2, tarsus 0-75. Camaroons (Burton). 



Female. Differs in the head being dark ashy olive, and the neck, crop 

 and sides of body yellowish olive ; culmen 0'5, wing 2-1, tail 1*8, tarsus 

 0-7. Fernando Po (Fraser). 



Fraser's Short- tailed Finch inhabits Fernando Po and the 

 Camaroons. 



The type, which is now in the British Museum, was dis- 

 covered by Fraser, at Clarence, on Fernando Po. 



In the Camaroons, the late Sir A. Burton found these 

 Finches at an elevation of 7,000 feet, and more recently Dr. 

 Preuss has procured the species in these mountains at Buea, 

 and Mr. Sjostedt met with it on one occasion at Bibundi. 



Linurgus kilimensis. 



Hyphantospiza kilimensis, Reichen. and Neum. Orn. Monatsb. 1895, p. 74 



Kilimanjaro. 

 Linurgus kilimensis, Reichen. in Werth. Mittl. Hochl. N. Deutsch, 0. 



Afr. p. 275 (1898) ; Neum. J. f. O. 1900, p. 289 Kilimanjaro. 

 Type. — " Similar to L. olivaceus, but with the bill shorter ; upper surface 

 of the body and the wing-coverts obscure olive green ; upper tail-coverts 



